MINISTRY OF LANDS, AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES, WATER AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT

The main function of public veterinary services (the Veterinary Authority) include

• Continuously monitoring animal populations for pests and diseases of economic and zoonotic importance, animal welfare, and conservation of biodiversity.

• Planning and executing animal disease prevention and control programs

• Promoting the application of preventive biosecurity, good animal health, welfare and hygiene practices

• Ensuring responsible use and access to veterinary medicines and remedies by farmers

• Introducing and transferring new technologies to improve livestock production and productivity, public health and animal welfare.

• Enhancing farmer participation in animal health disease surveillance

• Carrying out advisory services and training of animal owners, keepers, and other stakeholders

• Carrying out international disease surveillance and import control through border inspections for import/export control.

• Providing sanitary safety assurance inspections, testing and certification.

• Carrying out laboratory confirmatory diagnosis of disease pathogens and pests.

• Pathogen reduction schemes

• Production of animal vaccine

  • Residue testing for veterinary drugs and chemicals

  • Animal disease research and development of new technologies and knowledge

• Assuring consumer safety and product quality in animal-derived products through certifications for human consumption

• Promoting compliance at slaughter by animal source food business operators with sanitary safety regulations and standards

• Continuous scouting to monitor tsetse vector presence along the front of the tsetse fly belt and apply effective tsetse fly control measures.

• Conducting operational research to develop new technologies and improve existing ones, for eradication of tsetse flies.

• Transfer of technologies for use by stakeholders, including farmers for localized control of tsetse flies.

• Control of animal diseases of economic and zoonotic importance as well as animal welfare protection.

Disease and pest prevention and control

Animal vaccinations

Animal health extension and advisory services

Animal movement control

Veterinary Technical Services

• • Veterinary Public Health

  • Laboratory disease screening and confirmation

  • Animal health research

  • Inspection and certification of animals, processing establishments/plants and animal products

• Tsetse control and surveillance

  • • Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis surveillance

  • Tsetse Control Research

  • Tsetse Eradication operations

Capacity Development of Technical Staff

1. Head Office, Provinces, Districts and AHMCs
2.  
3. Central Veterinary Laboratory

• Provincial Veterinary Laboratories

1. Veterinary Port Health
2. Dip Tanks
3. Abattoirs

• Milk Processing Plants
• Epidemiology

1. Tsetse Field Stations
2. Tsetse Research Station
3. Mazowe Veterinary Field Research Station

• Quarantine station